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Apr 20 Contingency planning on projects Permanent Link

Following on from Andy Rutlege’s excellent and common sense article : Calculating Hours – the Client Factors I thought I’d add a few of my thoughts on how to handle certain projects based on certain clients.

This comes from years of experience working with a variety of different sized companies and organisations, all of whom – as Andy discusses in his article – approach working with service providers, such as ourselves, in different ways. Firstly I would suggest you read Andy’s article before mine, he puts his points across in a such a way that I perhaps never could, not being a “writer” and all!

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Mar 13 the WOMBATS new website Permanent Link

the WOMBATS Mercy Design , KevAdamson.com and Behind Design proudly present … a guide to the new ‘the WOMBATS’ website!

The WOMBATS are an awesome pop / rock / punk / indie band from Liverpool, UK who have had all their brand, album and marketing designed by the talented guys over at mercydesign.co.uk, who’ve now teamed up with m’self and Behind Design to do web stuff for it and that …

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Mar 7 Featured in Web Designer Magazine Permanent Link

Web Designer Magazine Imagine my surprise at hearing news from Nick La that I’d been featured on a double page spread in Web Designer Magazine (Issue 141 page 76). Finished imagining? If you can’t imagine, then I would describe my surprise as: “Heh! Sweet! Yep. Good.” or something similar.

The article was written by Steve Jenkins and was titled: “Steve Jenkins finds out what techniques make http://kevadamson.com tick along so very nicely”. So far so good …

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Jan 8 This be my new design ... Permanent Link

Just to let you know, the design idea for my new site can be found at: www.kevadamson.com/2008/

Update – 09/01/08 : I hadn’t checked the site in Safari and noticed, due to a slight slip-up in the mark-up, that the twitter / flickr area was not showing – this is now fixed. I also realised that Nick La’s comment in my previous post about font size was certainly a fair point when taking into consideration the Safari browser – so I’ve increased font sizes in certain areas a little to address the issue ...

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Dec 29 Redesigning kevadamson.com Permanent Link

kevadamson.com Over the festive period, apart from munching mince pies and glugging ale, I’ve been working on the new visual layout for this very website. The current main site layout is actually coming up to being 3 years old which, in web age, is actually pretty old. (Update 08/01/08) You can view a dummy page of the new design here: kevadamson.com 2008

It’s been a tough thing to do, as I’m quite attached to the site’s quirky little ways and it’s also still getting good feedback …

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Dec 22 Oh Eye! Permanent Link

Trading Eye I’m very pleased and somewhat chuffed to announce that a project I have developed for the View Creative Agency – Trackside Merchandising – has been featured on Trading Eye’s Featured ShopBuilder Showcase page.

The project had a very specific visual look, based around the print marketing, which had been designed and signed-off before an e-commerce solution had been agreed by ourselves and the client. With this in mind, Trading Eye was the hands-down winner as our chosen solution, as it’s excellent support of web standards mark-up meant we could implement any design into the framework …

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Dec 5 Does size matter? Permanent Link

I’m afraid, nowadays, it does. It seems to be cropping up time and time again, with people saying to me: ‘yeah, it looks pretty good, but can it to be bigger?’. Also, when I’m just looking around, I come across those that are a lot wider than before?! What’s going on? ...

Wait a minute?! What’s that sniggering I hear at the back there?? Why, I’m talking about ‘site width’ of course! You have such filthy minds! Tsk! ...

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Oct 25 Back to the Future Permanent Link

Future of Web Design Whilst reading my latest RSS feeds on bloglines last night, I was reminded that Future of Web Design conference is on in New York on November 7-8. The line-up, location, and venue look superb.

New York is a fantastic place, and I’ve not had the opportunity to return there since my last visit in 2001 (pre 9-11) during my University days ..

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Oct 1 Getting Shirty ... Permanent Link

egg Pssst … I have got a t-shirt design on www.splittheatom.com ...

If yer like it, give it a nice juicy high score and, who knows, it may even get printed! That would be cool! My design can be found at http://www.splittheatom.com/design/item1074/index.asp ...

But I think you may need to login / sign-up to vote – not sure. But tell all yer friends. Tell people who aren’t even your friends. Tell yer Grandma. Tell the postman. Tell everyone …

I’m planning on doing a load more designs on a kind of similar random-ish theme in the future, and I’ll be sure to shamelessly promote them in my blog posts also. Heh! It’s all good …

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Sep 22 Band Name! ... Permanent Link

Rock Hard Tasty Beats I love music. Mostly ‘Rock’ and sub-genres thereof. But I don’t dismiss anything because of it’s genre really. And the days of giving a toss about being / looking cool, or being up with the latest craze, faded away years ago. So I like what I like.

I also fiddle a bit on my guitar, have been in a few half-arsed bands, and I’ve been to a fair number of gigs – especially in the last 12 months or so: Fightstar (I know what you’re thinking – mono-brow from ‘Busted’ ... but they are a lot better than you’d think, honest), Forward Russia!, Biffy Clyro, Muse, Snow Patrol, The Bees, Scott Matthews, Lost Alone ... loads more. Can’t be arsed listing them all and, lets face it, you not even the slightest bit interested, are you …

Sigh. Anyways. As per usual I’m twittering and not getting to the point …

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